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How much space needed for snapshot

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We have a SAN with 4 x Datastores. One of these data stores hold 3 x 2TB VMDK's that have been joined in windows to form a single 6TB Data volume.
If i wanted to back this up with Veeam, will I need an additional 6TB space on the datastore to create the snapshots, or does it not work that way?

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It depends of type of VMs you have in your environment. More specifically, the amount of changes they produce regularly. According to the best practices, it’s strongly recommended to have 10% free of datastore in case of general VM, and, at least, 20% in case of VM with high change rate (SQL, Exchange, etc).

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Thanks.

So as a check, if I increase to say 10% space as it's only a file server, is there any danger if the snapshot were to fill the datastore, or would I be right in thinking it would throw up an error that it couldn't create the snapshot, then remove it?
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The job would throw an error, the snapshot would be merged.
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Also If you want to monitor VM snapshots and get notifications about orphaned snapshots, you can use Veeam ONE (part of Availability Suite).
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